Monday, March 23, 2026

Lenten Meditation -- Fifth Monday of Great Lent

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 How Shall We Escape, If We Neglect So Great a Salvation? (Hebrews 2.3)

Who will give us back this present time if we waste it? ...We are not yet perfect, but at least we desire to be so, and this is the beginning of our salvation...someone wanting to acquire the spiritual craft must not interest himself in anything else but, day and night, attend to it...unless a man drives himself and fights against his evil inclinations he readily falls away and diverges from the path of virtues.

—St Dorotheos of Gaza, Discourses, X: On Traveling the Way of God, as found inThe Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox